Stigmabase | Australia - New Zealand

How can 600000 children living in poverty not engender moral outrage? After 20 years of economic growth and a world-class welfare system, there is something fundamentally wrong when 600,000 Australian children currently live below the poverty line. Whilst poverty persistently resists amelioration, our body politic denies ...

Friendly Bridge of Life prevents suicide Of all the countries in the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), South Korea has by far the highest suicide rate — 28.4 per 100,000 people per year, making it the most common cause of death for people under 40. And one  ...

Service helps loved ones deal with pain of suicide Some of the country's leading experts on suicide have come together to form Postvention Australia , which was officially launched at state parliament yesterday. According to the not-for-profit organisation, every day seven Australians die by suicide and ...

Kindy picks up message stick Sadly the Northern Territory's first Aboriginal school principal and former Australian of the Year died recently from kidney disease, but he has passed his musical "message stick" of bridging the cultural divide to generations of students. It's that ...

  Why an Australian referendum on gay marriage is a bad idea In his first press conference since being reinstated as prime minister, Kevin Rudd proudly declared that he was the first Australian head of government in history to support marriage equality. Same-sex marriage, he said, was a hugely important issue ...

Australian PM Rudd puts gay marriage on agenda SYDNEY : Newly-reinstated Australian leader Kevin Rudd put gay marriage on the election agenda, calling for a bipartisan conscience ballot on the issue and raising the possibility of putting it to a direct public vote. Rudd, who took back power in a ... Other geolocations

Australian companies with a great track record on gay marriage With that in mind, we looked at some of the best high-profile companies operating in Australia for supporting the rights of lesbian, gay , bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) people in the workplace. Most are also endorsed by Australian Marriage ...

Gay couples can now adopt in Tasmania Three other Australian states and territories allow same-sex adoption: Western Australia , the Australian Capital Territory and New South Wales. Tasmania has allowed same-sex step-parent adoption since 2003, the legal recognition of non-biological  ...